Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1935 — Page 6

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M'NUTT ORDERS DRASTIC BUYING SYSTEM CHANGE Sweeping Revisions in State Purchasing Department Setup Demanded. (Continued From Par One)

in accordance with proper purchasing procedure. ‘•Furthermore, the departments and divisions have declared that emergencies existed when, as a matter of fact, emergencies did not exist. All of this has occurred through no fault of the Central Purchasing Department except that the departments further imposed on the Central Purchasing Department to honor confirmation orders. “Because of *he practices which have been disclosed it is deemed of public necessity that additional rules and -egulations be made effective. Inerefore, under the authority conferred upon me as Governor of the State of Indiana by an act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana entitled: 'An act creating a central purchasing bureau and the office of state purchasing agent, prescribing their rights, powers and duties and making an appropriation therefor,' and being Chapter 121 of the Acts of the General Assembly for the state of Indiana for 1933, approved March 7. 1833, I hereby direct that the state purchasing agent draw up rules and regulations, to be submitted for my approval, covering the following points: Confirmation Orders Sent Out “1. That the state purchasing agent notify all department and division heads and superintendents of state institutions that on and after Jan. 25, 1935, no confirmation orders will be issued by the central purchasing department. "2. That the receiving copy of all purchase orders issued by the Central Purchasing Department must be properly receipted and attached to th'* invoice voucher of vendor before they can be honored for payment, and that the State Auditor be instructed that payment shall not be made on any invoice voucher unless the receiving copy of the purchase order is attached; that the administrative officer of each division be instructed to appoint some one in each department to familiarize himself with the specifications of the purchases which they are requesting, and that party so appointed shall also co-operate and work with the Central Purchasing Department. “3. That invitations to bid be extended to not less than three qualified bidders. Invitation to Rid. “4. That the Purchasing Department be authorized to make emergency purchp.>es in any sum not to exceed S2OO and that with all emergency purchase orders there shall appear p. statement of the division, department or institution, making the requisition, setting forth the reasons for the making of such emergency purchase. “5. That all requisitions and requests forwarded to the Central Purchasing Department shall be rewritten, necessary, in order that they may conform with proper purchase procedure. , *6. That the Central Purchasing Department establish a bulletin board at a conspicuous place in the corridor outside of the office of the Central Purchasing Department on which shall be posted copies of all invitations to bid. and that all invitations to bid specify a date and an hour certain when all bids shall be opened; that at the time the bids are opened the names and addresses of the bidders shall be listed. which list shall be placed on file in the records of the Central Purchasing Department. “I also direct: “1. That sufficient additional help

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Life Just One Headline After Another to Max Thirty-Six Years of N f ews Hustling Packed With Thrills for Ex-Amateur Ring Star.

BY ARCH RTEINEL T;®m Stiff Writer ITS a long cry from “Dewey Destroys Fleet at Manila” to “Dill nger Dies at Movie Show,” but in the 36 years spanning those cries Is the life of an Indianapolis man who belongs to that almost extinct group of comer tarsplltters—the news hustlers. Max Marcus. 44. owner of the Lyric News and Book Shop, is o:. of the last of the breed of Indianapolis newsboys who imprinted the headlines on passersby with their raucous voices. —And. he still owns the same stand where he first started selling Indianapolis newspapers in 1908. Mr. Marcus has cried every catastrophy, trial verdict, marine disaster and prize-fight result in the present century and his castiron bellows claims for Armistice day, 1918, the record as pri7,e saleday of city papers at his stand at Illinois end Market-sts. “Fifteen hundred copies of The Indianapolis Times I sold that day and they were crying for more,’’ says Mr. Marcus as he now smooths edges of the magazines i" his shop to preve”* d<g-ears. Trials, sea disasters, Col. Lindberghs flight, even the present Hauptmann trial, could not equal that day when a Hoosier world found out that its “boys were coming home,” Mr. Marcus says. s0 TODAY’S newsboy is a shrinking violet compared to the “Foghorn'’ of Seattle and a few other “newsies" whom Max has bucked against in a battle of bassos, he says. “The newsstand ruined them,” he complains. “They don’t get out in such weather as I have in Indianapolis—22 below—and tell the public what's in the paper to read.” In establishing what he claims as the city's first newstand, he intended to cover his out-of-town papers and not to pamper himself. Max has survived newsboy wars from Kansas City, Mo., to the Coast without a scratch. “It wasn’t my way; I would avoid trouble,” he admits grudgingly. His fighting, he’ll admit under urging, was done in the squared ring as a preliminary boy and he always adds vehemently: “Always an amateur, mind you—and now' I don’t even go to a bout.” Weighing in as bantamweight he fought at clambakes, lodge shows and amateur performances of the saloon era. 000 THE boyhood thrill came, he says, when he and several youngsters were taken as preliminary boys on an exhibition tour of the West by Jim Jeffries and “Ruby Bob” Fitzsimmons, exheavyweight champions. “Fitz could have whipped Jeff

be added to the staff of the Central Purchasing Department to more effectively carry out and perform the duties that may be required in the necessary operations of the department. “2. That the State Board of Accounts assign competent investigators to make a thorough study of the forms and records of the Central Purchasing Department that are now in use and determine whether improvement can be made in the operation of the department which would result in increased efficiency. “3. That printed copies of the revised rules and regulations be distributed to all departments and persons concerned. •‘PAUL V. M’NUTT, Governor.” Jan. 16. 1935.

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if he had been In his prime,” comments Max. Although he w r on’t admit it, acquaintances declare that Max’ ring career was ended by a longtoothed Filipino. “He had the longest teeth I ever saw.” explained Max. "What did he do, Max, lead with his teeth?” queried a “kibitzing” bystander. "Well, look at that,” and the news shop owner opened a thumb showing a scar. “His tooth cut through my glove,” he grinned. Thumbed out of the fight game, Max interspersed newspaper hustlirg W'ith messenger boy w r ork, “news-butching” on trains, selling San Francisco earthquake papers at 50 cents to $1 apiece, delivering mysterious packages to night rendevouz in cities, selling papers in opium dens. 000 HE learned to sleep, after a hard day of hustling “sheets,” in me 'ie shows. “I used to go to them just to sleep; I’m married now, and I'm still looking at the movies,” he winked. Max says cities on the Pacific Coast have the best news hustlers of today. Last June he branched into his new : s shop on North Illinois-st. H? put hustling methods into that shop. One day he stood in the doorway and with a number of nationally known publications passed one out to passersby and to those entering the shop. Mrs. Marcus aids him in his shop. She throws an odd light on the man who has seen half the w'orld pasi his street corners in daytimes and who has seen the other half in its night-life. “You know if there W'as anything off-color in a movie we went to when he was courting me he never heard it or understood it. He’s that way yet. No.—” She eyed a flamboyant magazine cover with a girl in “pretties”—“l never have to w'orry about Max spending his time reading one of those magazines.” JOHNSON STILL LOYAL General Promises to Aid Roosevelt in Writings. By United Pres* NEW YORK. Jan. 17.—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson will do in the future what he has done during the last two years—“putting everything I have on the ball for what Franklin D. Roosevelt stands for.” He plans to do it through writing, he said in a speech, denying he w r as considering a job in “big business.”

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OFFICER HUNTS SON IN BRUTAL SLAYIMPROBE Patrolman Gets Out of Sick Bed, Promises to ‘Get Story.' (Continued From Page One) ing room, “was there almost a complete load of bread on the truck at that time of the afternoon?” “Yes,” said his wife, “only Saturday we wanted to buy an extra loaf when they returned here for Dick to get off, and they only had one.” “Where Had They Been?” “Where had they been,” resumed the father, “if they sold no more bread than that during the day’” “Then, too, I searched the surrounding field for foot prints, and there are none. Where did my boy go after that shooting happened? I don’t think he thumbed a ride. Where is he and how did he get away?” “There was that chair in the truck that Dick sat on. The leg was broken when we found the truck. What does that mean? Then there is this quarrel they are supposed to have had. Where did that occur and what was it about? Why did Dick get back in the truck after it?” “I don’t see how they could have been angry with each other. After he finished the chores here Sunday, Dick helped Hunt put shelves for the bread in the new truck. Hunt drove it over here to do the work. We all knew Hunt. He stayed here for dinner several times.” The father sighed. The mother took up the conversation. “He was active in affairs at the Christian Church just dewn the street. He missed Sunday School for the first time in weeks last Sunday because his father was ill and he had to do the chores around here. “I’ll Get the Story’ “He didn’t go on the bakery rounds with Hunt Monday because he had to help me take care of his father. He never stayed out late at nights. He rqad a lot, and I believe the reason he didn’t like to go to school was because he was so much larger than other boys in his class that he felt embarrassed. He was so large, you know.” Today Mrs. Liese, firmly convinced that, when .the world knows all about those vital few minut°j immediately before the shooting in the truck, her son will stand in a better light, stayed in their home and waited for his return. Patrolman George Liese turned with jg heavy heart but an alert mind to that grim assignment that can happen to no one but an officer of the law —manhunting for his own flesh and blood. The detectives who were there yesterday to arrest the boy were removed by Chief Morrissey. And, while radio calls flashed descriptions of the boy to all states, Patrolman George Liese went on the most Important assignment of his 10 years as a police officer. “I’ll get the whole story,” he said, “and I’ll bring him in.”

WORLD WAR COST IN U. S. $344 PER CAPITA Total Spent Is $41,765,000,000, Treasury Reveals. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—America’s monetary cost of fighting the World War was announced today by the Treasury as $41,765,000,000 or $334 per capita. Between the declaration of war in April, 1917, to June 30, 1921, the cost was estimated at $25,729,000,00. Added to this sum was $6,391,000,000 paid to veterans, $9,557,000,000 total interest on war debt obligations and SBB,000,000 in settlement of war claims. Indiana Artists to Meet The life and work of T. C. Steele, noted Indiana landscape artist, will be discussed by his son, Brandt Steele, at the meeting of the Indiana Artists’ Club tomorrow night at John Herron Art Institute.

The Theatrical World Marie Morrell to Give Violin Recital Sunday BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

A SUNDAY night concert will be given at the Playhouse of the Civic Theater next Sunday night. Marie Dawson Morrell, violinist, will give a recital on this series of concerts which is offered without chargj to the Civic Theater subscribers. The first two concerts of this series proved a pleasant and a popular way of bringing together those I who are interested both in the theaj ter and music. Mrs. Morrell has selected the fol- ' lowing program: "La Folia" (variations serieuses) A. Corelli Caprice No. XX . Niccolo Paeamni "Sicilenne at Rigaudon” .. .. Francois Francoeur II Concerto in E Minor Nardinl Allegro Moderato. Andante Cantabile. Allegro Giocoso. in "Baal Shem” Ernest Bldch "Hebrew Lullaby” J. Achron-Auer "Nocturne” lAH Boulanger "The Bee” Francois Schubert "Ave Maria” Franz Schubert "Rondo” Mozart-Kreisler 000 Another Circuit To inaugurate a program of exchanging plays among amateur theaters in Indianapolis, the Players De Miller, North Side group, will produce “The Woodpile,” a oneact tragedy, at the Brightwood M. E. Church at 6 p. m. Sunday, Jan. 20. Roles will be taken by Bertha Purcell, Eugene Underwood and Forrest Coburn. The play is directed by E. Pierre De Miller. The Players De Miller and the drama group at the Brookside church are both members of the theater circuit of the Indianapolis Guild and Circuit, local organization working from a civic standpoint in artistic endeavor. The drama circuit includes 12 active groups, and is in contact with about 15 others over the city, according to De Miller, who is director of the Guild and Circuit. The circuit is used by member groups to exchange plays with each other, to provide experience and comparison of work done by various units.

Plans for the Civic Unless continued demand for tickets justifies another performance tomorrow night, “Both Your Houses” will be presented at the Civic Theater for the last time tonight. The play originally was scheduled to close Wednesday night, but its popularity nec:*.itated the additional performance tonight. “Both Your Houses” was the Pulitzer prize-winning play of 1933. It is a satire on politics in the national Capitol. 000 A Show Goes On BY JOHN W. THOMPSON . Last Night at the Murat Theater Earl Carroll’s Vanities were presented. But more than that . . . It was much more than the mere routine of acts, of songs, of dances. It was a display of the indomitable spirit that is the lifeblood of the show world; the loyalty of a trouper to his colors. Mr. Carroll, our hand! Yours is a real show, backstage as well as out front. Monday night, following the first of three scheduled presentations of the Vanities at English Theater, there was a fire back-stage. It destroyed costumes, drops, settings and personal belongings of the Vanities company. A great portion of the show went up in flames or down beneath the necessary flood from fire hose. But one thing was salvaged. And that one thing was present during the performance last night at the Murat. That one thing, best explained by the trite phrase, “the show must go on,” that red badge of courage that is seared into the heart of every showman and every showgirl, that one thing put the show over last night. One could see it the faces of the performers, one could sense it in their songs, could feel it in the very pulse beat of their dancing. And so it did go on. All day yesterday, seamstresses, wardrobe workers, carpenters, painters, all united toward the same end. And 10, their little Rome was rebuilt in a

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day. Not the same Rome perhaps, but Rome nevertheless. And shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, they marched through their show last night. Stripped of its glamour, bared to the very soul of reality, Indianapolis saw a glimpse of the stuff which makes for success in last night's Vanities. They did it. They sang themselves hoarse, they danced themselves dizzy, but they did it. The show went on. And so again, Mr. Carroll, our hand to you and to each and everyone of the troupers, tried and true. 000 Indianapolis theaters today offer: Vaudeville and “The White Cockatoo” at the Lyric, “The Country Chairman” at the Apollo, “Enter Madame” at the Circle, “Broadway Bill” at the Indiana, “The Night Is Young” at Loew’s Palace, “Both Your Houses,” political comedy, at the Civic Theater Playhouse; “Scarface” and “Golden Harvest” at the Ohio and movies at the Colonial. FISHING MEASURE IS PRESENTED IN HOUSE Bill Fixes Closed Season From Feb. 1 to June 15. A conservation bill dealing with the closed season on fishing was introduced in the House yesterday by Rep. Herbert H. Evans (R., Newcastle) and Rep. Horace R. Willan (D., Martinsville). The act proposes that the closed season on all species of bass, blue gills, yellow perch, pike or pickerel, silver bass, red eye and crappie be from Feb. 1 to June 15. It was read as H. B. 61 and referred to the Natural Resources Committee.

MURAT Slatinee AVednesday SAM H. HARRIS PRESENTS DOROTHY ETHEL STONE WATERS In the Music jßox Sensation^, T^SSS* Seat Sale Tomorrow at English's Eves., $3.80, $3.75, $2.20, $1.65, sl.lO AVed. Mat., $3.75, $2.20, $1.65, sl.lO Including Tax

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THREE BANDITS FACE KIDNAPING, MURDERGHARGE Outlaw Leader Kills Self; Two Two Pursuers Slain by Gang.

By United Press OTTAWA. Iff.,-Jan. 17.—Three of four bandits who yesterday attempted to rob a bank at Leonore, 111., with subsequent slaying of two pursuers and suicide of the fourth robber, will be charged with murder, kidnaping and bank robbery before a grand jury Monday. State's Attorney Elmer Mohan delayed presentation of their cases to the jury today to await outcome of wounds received by Charles Seipp, La Salle County supervisor and director of the Leonore bank, and Arthur Thielen of Rockford, 111., one of the bandits. Both men were wounded critically. Mr. Seipp was taken to a hospital in Streator. Thielen to La Salle. Sheriff Glenn Axline of Marshall County, 32, and J. C. Bundy, cashier of the Leonore State Bank, were killed in a 25-mile pursuit of the bandits which roused three counties. Melvin Leist, 45-year-old Rockford gang leader, killed himself with a machine gun when trapped, in a cornfield near McNabb, 111. Deputy Sheriff Brown of Marshall County, wounded when Sheriff Axline was killed, and Norbert Maas, 15-year-old farm boy seized by the bandits as a hostage in their flight and wounded by pursuers, were recovering. Prosecutor Mohan said he would ask the grand jury Monday to indict Thielen and the other bandits held, Fred Gerner, 26, of Rockford, and John Hauff, 28, Chicago, for the killing of the bank cashier, as well as the kidnaping of Norbert Maas. The death penalty is possible on any of the three counts. A Putnam

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